Betrayal Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It's our only defence against betrayal.
— 1953 Marguerite. Camino Real, block10.
Such a scheme .. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.
james connolly— P. Beresford Ellis (ed.), "James Connolly - Selected Writings", p. 275.
— Referring to partition of Ireland.
As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
Ada Leverson— Chapter xxxix
Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.
isabel paterson— p. 292 (The God of the Machine (1943))
Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.
stephanie zacharek— Review of Vanilla Sky (2001)
The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
james baldwin— Stranger in the Village Harper's Magazine (October 1953); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.
alfred bester— Chapter 12 (p. 188)
But we are gifted, even in November, Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.
robert graves— "The White Goddess," lines 18–22, from Poems and Satires (1951)
If you were not to be its victim, this book and body would amuse you with its arrogance. It would make you laugh. Because you were not its victim, you could feel no pain of betrayal.
Peter Greenaway— From the eighth book, "The Book of the Seducer"
At the end of what is called the "sexual life" the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
graham greene— May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967)
Most people would define treason as a betrayal of one's country or sovereign. In my book, the book of natural law, treason is properly defined as a betrayal of one's countrymen and, in particular, the betrayal of the individual's right to life, liberty and property. (To your question, yes, this renders almost all politicians traitors by definition.)
ilana mercer— “The Peerless Malevolence of Redcoat Piers Morgan,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 18, 2013.
He is thinner, taller, younger – more boyish-looking – than expected, but he is also the shyest and most nervous human being I have ever seen. He chews not merely his nails but his fingers, twitches his pouty mouth and chin, chain-smokes, wiggles his nose in constant adjustment of his spectacles, looks querulous one moment and ready to cry the next. His hands tremble, he stutters, his whole frame wobbles when he shakes hands…There is no betrayal of the thoughts behind those frightened, very intelligent eyes.
dmitri shostakovich— Robert Craft, journal entry for October 1, 1962; published in Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft Dialogues and Diary (1968) pp. 291-2.
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.
isabel paterson— Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943), p. 292.
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure , intrigue, betrayal .
— Deepak Chopra, in Nicole Neroulias 10 Minutes with... Deepak Chopra, Beliefnet
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare .
— Beau Willimon, in Alson Willimore House of Cards' Showrunner Beau Willimon on Netflix, Ideal Politicians and Working With David Fincher] 29 January 2013, Indiewire
And even if, because their minds are overwhelmed by greed , they cannot see the evil incurred by destroying one's own family, and the degradation involved in the betrayal of a friend , How can we be so ignorant as not to recoil from this wrong? The evil incurred by destroying one's own family is plain to see, Janardana.
— Arjuna; Chapter 1, verses 38–39; W. J. Johnson translation
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.
Josh Fox— From article, Josh Fox's view: Ban fracking now, June 6, 2011
Most people would define treason as a betrayal of one's country or sovereign. In my book, the book of natural law, treason is properly defined as a betrayal of one's countrymen and, in particular, the betrayal of the individual's right to life, liberty and property. (To your question, yes, this renders almost all politicians traitors by definition.)
— “The Peerless Malevolence of Redcoat Piers Morgan,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 18, 2013.
Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.
chuck palahniuk— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (2003).
If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery , it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.
isabel paterson— Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943), p. 292.
Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.
Bob sorge— Loyalty: The Reach of the Noble Heart
I never got used to the way the house Trots fell into the jargon back in Grimsby I mean, on any other subject, like the death of the novel, or the sex life of the editor's secretary, they spoke ordinary English, but as soon as they started trying to get me to join the strike it was as if their brains had been taken out and replaced by one of those little golf-ball things you get in electric typewriters... "betrayal"... "Confrontation"... "Management"... My God, you'd need a more supple language than that to describe an argument between two amoebas.
tom stoppard— Milne, Act I
I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical.
tom stoppard— Housman, Act I
Yet Dafydd's humour does not obscure, any more than Chaucer 's does, the underlying seriousness of his poetry. Behind his poems of requited and unrequited love, whether idyllic or idealizing, whether streaked by savage jealousy or a profound feeling of betrayal reminiscent of Troilus and Criseyde , there runs a sense of the cruel impermanence of the world.
— Patrick Sims-Williams, in Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983) p. 302.
